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 Chap. 44.] ACCOUIs'T OF COUNTEIES, ETC. 499 chus^ of Sicyon, Eudoxus", Antigcnes', Callicrates^, Xeno- phon* of Lampsacus, Diodonis*' of Syracuse, IFanno^, Him- ilco^ Nympliodorus^, Calliplianes^", Artemidorus", Meg- Periander of Corinth, one of the Seven Wise Men, who wTote a didactic poem, containing moral and pohtical precepts, in 2000 Unes ; and, 2. a physician and bad poet, contemporary with Arcliidamas, the son of Agesilails. It is uncertain to which Phny here refers. of him. ' Of Cyzicus, see end of B. ii. ; of Cnidos, see end of B. iv. ' A Greek historian, who appears, from Plutarch, to have written a liistory of the cxpecUtions of Alexander the Great. ' The author of the Periplus,or voyage which he perfonned round a part of Libya, of wlxich we have a Greek translation fi-om the Punic original. His age is not known, but PUny states (B. ii. c. 67, and B. v. c. 1) that the voyage was imdertaken in the most floiu-isliing days of Carthage. It has been considered on the whole, that he may be probably identified with Hanno, the son or the father of Ilamilcar, who was slain at Himera, B.C. 480. ^ Mentioned also by Phny, B. ii. c. 67, as having conducted a voyage of discovery from Gades towards the north, along the western shores of Europe, at the same time that Hanno proceeded on his voyage along the western coast of Africa. He is repeatedly quoted by Festus Avienus, in his geographical poem called Ora Maritima. His voyage is said to have lasted four months, but it is impossible to judge how far it extended. « See end of B. iii. '" See end of B. iii. " See end of B. il was sent on an embassy to Sandrocottus, king of the Prasii, whoso capital was Palibothra, a tom probably in the vicinity of tlie present Patna. Whether he had accompanied Alexander on his invasion of India is quite micei'tain. He wrote a work on In(Ha in four books, to which the subsequent Greek writt-rs wen' chiefly indebted for their accounts of India. Arrian sjK-aks highly of him as a writer, but Strabo impeaches his veracity; and we find Pliny hinting the same in B. vi. c. 21. Of his work only a few iragments survive. 13 See end of B. ii. " Sec end of B. iv. his puj)il ; but it is not known whether he is the person referretl to, in C. 10, cither as having WTitten a work on universal geography, or on that of Egypt. END OF VOL. I.
 * Probably a WTiter on geography. Nothing appears to be known
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 * 2 A Greek geographer, and friend of Seleucus Nicator, by whom ho
 * There was a philosopher of this name, a nepliew of Chrjsi])pu8, and